Your 10 Favorite Canadian Bands...acording to digital song count

Cafe Society
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When you only look at your digital music collection however you define that (rather than CDs/tapes/records/8-tracks and also do not include favorites on streaming music you don’t own), and by basing your liking solely by which bands you have the most songs by in your collection, what are your ten favorite Canadian bands?

Here’s a list, but you probably know other bands not on it, which is obviously fine - oh, and FYI, the Bush on that list is from the 70s, not the 90s

Please list them in descending order:

[ul]
[li]Our Lady Peace[/li][li]Moist[/li][li]Nickelback[/li][li]Jackalope[/li][li]Thousand Foot Krutch[/li][li]Tegan and Sara[/li][li]Death From Above 1979[/li][li]Controller.Controller[/li][li]Finger Eleven[/li][li]Theory of a Deadman[/li][/ul]

Any surprises? I was shocked to have more Tegan and Sarah and Theory of a Deadman than The Zolas and Econoline Crush

2

I tried to find 10 from the Wiki page, some I know a lot better than others.

  1. Arcade Fire
  2. Cowboy Junkies
  3. Front Line Assembly
  4. Fucked Up
  5. Real McKenzies
  6. Rush
  7. Tegan and Sara
  8. Venetian Snares (not a band, should be on the single artists list)
  9. Weakerthans
  10. Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown - same guy

Eta alphabetic, I’ll try to number if I don’t time out

3

The Canadian bands I have are Rush, the Guess Who, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

4

If solo artists don’t count, my Canadian band list is:

  1. The Guess Who
5

By all means, go ahead and list solo artists.

6

Then I’ll add Bryan Adams to my list. And I don’t know if they count for real, but Doug and Bob McKenzie, aka Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis.

7

Unless I’ve missed some:
[ul]
[li]Barenaked Ladies[/li][li]New Pornographers[/li][li]Ron Sexsmith[/li][li]Bruce Cockburn[/li][li]Hokus Pick[/li][li] ________(and now a gap before the one-album wonders)[/li][li]Sarah McLachlan[/li][li]Arcade Fire[/li][li]Alanis Morissette[/li][li]Odds[/li][/ul]

8

Barenaked Ladies
Alanis Morissette

That’s it. I have a LOT of BNL tho so don’t be mad, Canada.

9

After looking over the list, I can add:

Barenaked Ladies
Cowboy Junkies
Leahy

Neil Young
Joni Mitchell
Gordon Lightfoot
Bruce Cockburn

10

I don’t think I’ll make it to ten. Let’s see:

  1. New Pornographers
  2. Arcade Fire
  3. Cub
    4.Sloan
  4. Men Without Hats

Those I all have albums for. The rest are singles:
6. Len
7. Kon Kan

And I think that’s it. I may have had Godspeed You Black Emoeror at some point, as well.

11

Not in reverse order, sorry.

Rush
Guess Who
Gordon Lightfoot
Neil Young
Irish Rovers (I think they count as Canadian)
Bryan Adams
The Band (gotta overlook Kevin Helm; still, mostly Canadian)
Pursuit of Happiness
Barenaked Ladies
Saga

12
  1. Frank Marino/Mahogany Rush
  2. Pat Travers
  3. Neil Young
  4. FM
  5. Steppenwolf
13
  1. The Tragically Hip
  2. Metric
  3. Arcade Fire
  4. Bedouin Soundclash
  5. Irish Rovers
  6. Jet Set Satellite (went to school with a member)
  7. Our Lady Peace
  8. Theory of a Deadman
  9. The Trewes
  10. The Tea Party
14

It appears that I do not actually own any albums by Canadian bands (there are a few stray songs by the Guess Who and Bryan Adams that sneaked into my music library).

I may need to add Canadian surf rock music to my collection (Spain and Finland are already represented). Intriguingly, there is an Ottawa band called The Reverb Syndicate, which Wikipedia describes as “an almost exclusively instrumental “Spy-Fi” surf band from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada who have been playing since 2006. Their music is of “soundtracks to 1960s spy films that don’t exist”.”

Sounds like a must-have.

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Bracketed quantities are the number of songs reported by iTunes (I have music in other libraries and services that would change these).

These are artists that I have more than 50 songs in iTunes.

Sarah McLachlan (160)
Matthew Good (87) / Matthew Good Band (62)
Delerium (121)
David Usher (36) / Moist (69)
Jann Arden (101)
Nickelback (88)
Naomi Striemer (83)
Our Lady Peace (79)
City & Colour (68)
Colin James (66)
Loreena McKennitt (57)

The list below is the rest of the Canadian contingent with at least 10 songs or 1 full album present (there are a couple of artists missing, e.g. Tegan and Sara, where I have more elsewhere but only one track on iTunes).

Default (46)
Lights (44)
Alanis Morissette (40)
Nelly Furtado (39)
Avril Lavigne (38)
Serena Ryder (31)
Finger Eleven (29)
Carly Rae Jepsen (27)
Amanda Marshall (23)
Theory of a Deadman (23)
Gordon Lightfoot (21)
Artificial Joy Club (10) / One 2 One (etc) (10)
West End Girls (20)
Weeknd (18)
Great Big Sea (16)
Skye Sweetnam (16)
Celine Dion (15)
Chantal Kreviazuk (14)
Bryan Adams (14)
Moxy Fruvous (14)
Philosopher Kings (14)
Appleton (13)
Bif Naked (12)
Metric (12)
Hedley (11)
Holly McNarland (11)
Jully Black (11)
Rankin Family (11)
Tragically Hip (11)
Dianna Krall (10)
Sky (10)
Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker (7)

-DF

16

Neil Young
Cowboy Junkies
Leonard Cohen
k d lang
The Band
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Skinny Puppy

17

I imagine that The Canadian Brass is a Canadian band, so my list can get to one, at least. But after that…?

18

nm

19

Sorry, I wasn’t clear—by “one-album wonder” I meant bands that I only had one album by.

But, my one album by the Odds is Nest, which I like quite a bit; but I’ve listened to one or two others and didn’t like them enough at the time to hold onto them.

20

1 Neil Young and Crazy Horse
2 Joni Mitchell with anyone else esp Jaco Pastorius
3 The Band
4 Neil Young and Buffalo Springfield
5 Neil Young and CSNY
6 Neil Young and the Squires
7 Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks